Aktuelle Lesungen

Amazing Grace—366 Inspiring Hymn Stories for Daily Devotions

June 21 • MY FAITH HAS FOUND A RESTING PLACE • Lidie H. Edmunds, 19th century • I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him for that day. (2 Timothy 1:12) • Saving faith is much more than a commitment to a creed, church, or a doctrinal system. It must be a commitment to a person—Jesus Christ. Doctrinal statements and creeds are important in defining and delineating truth, but …

The Christian’s Secret of a Holy Life

Confidence in Christ and Confession • June 21 • That your prayers may be availing, dear boy, keep your own heart with all diligence. Keep it, that is, by abandoning it to the care and keeping of the Lord. I am so thankful you are finding the rest of faith. This can only come from a childlike confidence in Jesus, which clings to His word, and does not give heed to any doubt. Of course He will save you! This is just …

Morning and Evening

Go To Morning Reading Evening, June 21 • “The foundation of God standeth sure.” • — 2 Timothy 2:19 • The foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us,” and that “Christ also hath suffered for sin, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to …

My Utmost for His Highest

• June 21st • The ministry of the interior • But ye are . . . a royal priesthood. 1 Peter 2:9. • By what right do we become “a royal priesthood”? By the right of the Atonement. Are we prepared to leave ourselves resolutely alone and to launch out into the priestly work of prayer? The continual grubbing on the inside to see whether we are what we ought to be, generates a self-centred, morbid type of Christianity, not the robust, simple life of …

Thoughts for the Quiet Hour

June 21 • These … have turned the world upside down • Acts 17:6 • The serene beauty of a holy life is the most powerful influence in the world next to the might of God. • Pascal •…